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They should give them away. I’d never spend $600 on any kind of windows product. Maybe we can install linux on it? But you’d have to be smoking crack not to buy a mac mini m1. It’s the best computer I ever used hands down

For nuclear winter it would need to be substantially more, and for crop failure necessary for population reduction, a full nuclear exchange

this is actually great news for the planet

Those are such crappy laptops the latitude. So flimsy, such garbage

Their censorship function is broken because you can just make a new account in 30 seconds from a new ip which is automatic now with safari relay. This is like my 50th account. And there’s no real benefit to amassing points except for the mods and users to threaten taking them away to keep you singing the woke village tune and not criticize YC startups. But you know that’s a loss to HN, because there’s a great deal of value in dissenting opinion. Don’t you want to know if you have a delusional bad idea? Of course that’s valuable feedback. The self censorship flagging is also a nasty feature allowing crypto zealots to control the narrative. Take for example that ridiculous eyeball scanning crypto scam. Any criticism was censored, and then twitter found out and shot it down in glorious style. Well and Edward Snowden. Would’ve benefited the creators to actually listen to the criticism, which was super valid, over censoring it on a backwater forum to give the false impression of endorsement by the bay.

Neat to see a RISC V laptop but they must be smoking crack if they think I’m paying $1500 for the privilege of recompiling my operating system really, really slowly. And the 5k option is outright predatory. Someone needs to protect the vulnerable enthusiast market (you know who I’m referring to) from this kind of pricing. Ask a fair price. It’s an $800 laptop, maxed out.

If you pay a twice the rental cost and watch the movie a dozen times, that’s your moneys worth. Nobody wants to hold onto a DVD for 20 years to rewatch an old movie again and again and again and pass it onto their grandkids. This is just ridiculous, streaming movies is absolutely the future. The days of 50tb drive arrays with every Hollywood movie are over not because of a new world order but because the time trade off and all that effort just isn't worth the $4 to sit and enjoy the movie in one of your finite days on Earth

The orange pi’s are so nice now. They come w a metal box just like a Mac mini

No it isn’t. Ok sure, there are only so many bitcoins that can be mined. But - there’s 50k alt currencies that have fallen out of the sky, most also with scarcity. Why are they worthless while bitcoin holds value?. In fact the scarcity in cryptocurrency isn’t the tokens at all rather the collective expendable income of gullible users. They’re for the most part running a net loss, and even those ahead on paper need to go through a regulated exchange for a payout with all the questions that come with that giant pile of money.

The 2d desktop is over anyway. Tomorrows desktop is 3d AR

Bye Nick! Thanks for all the blinking lights!!

The desktop experience is still a mess. They’ve become complacent with ‘it works out of the box’ but that’s not the bar. Apple sets the bar and there’s no prize for second place. You’re on Apple or Linux or brain damaged and using Windows, but nobodies using two as their primary driver, and so one ecosystem dominates. I’m glad it’s Apple because the GNU crowd are virtue signalers first and software developers second. For all their yapping the linux desktop speaks for itself

I remember vividly smashing the stylus into the unresponsive tft screen until it broke in a white rage. The n900 totally sucked, although it did look neat. The wifi sucked, the screen sucked, no capacitive touch. Also the battery sucked like one and a half hours screentime. And the apps they sucked. Oh and it was slow enough every webpage loaded would have you near tears in anticipation. But - to nokias credit, it did fit into your pocket, helpfully to compensate for the wad of cash absent after the purchase.